http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/protest-wwfs-shrimp-standards/

2011 Hands Across the Sand_Sponsor

Building on the success of last year, I would like to invite your organization to be

a sponsor of Hands Across the Sand in 2011 so that we may broaden the reach

and impact of the event.

I believe the collective efforts of clean energy and environmental organizations

have immense power of combined membership and expertise to create real

change in our national and world energy policy.

Please review the information below and contact Dede Shelton at

dedeshelton@gmail.com

to join hands through your sponsorship.Sponsoring Hands Across the Sand will require a minimum of effort for each

organization to have a powerful outcome. Please join hands with us on June 25,

2011!

Very best,

Dave Rauschkolb, Founder, Hands Across The Sand

850-865-1061

http://www.handsacrossthesand.org

http://www.facebook.com/HandsAcrossTheSand?ref=ts

46,700 members currently

Flikr photo slide show – June 26, 2010 event

http://www.flickr.com/search/groups/show/?q=handsacrossthesand&m=pool&w=

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May 3, 2011

Dear Friends of Mangroves:

Mangrove Action Project is asking for your help with our latest campaign against shrimp farm certification. We are preparing a compiled statement of protest from the conservation world against World Wildlife Foundation’s proposed Shrimp Aquaculture Dialogue, with its intended Aquaculture Stewardship Council.  This well intentioned effort is seriously flawed due to standards that will never insure the health of mangroves from such farming activities.  Please sign on to show your support for healthy mangroves!
Please sign onto this letter on your behalf in addition to as many of your affiliated organizations as possible. We need lots of signatures to show we have wide support for this critical initiative to insure the health of mangroves and related ecosystems from the damaging effects of shrimp farming. 

Please also distribute this to any lists available to you and to any others you know who care about marine biodiversity. We plan to send out our initial letter with sign-ons very soon, so the more signatures we have the better!  Although we would like to hear from you immediately, in the event you need more time to obtain additional sign-ons, please do forward them to us also when you obtain them, as we will be gathering additional signatures over the next few months.

Yours for the mangroves,

Alfredo Quarto

Executive Director
Mangrove Action Project

<mangroveap@olympus.net>

Here’s the letter: 

WWF Press Release Draft3 AQ 5-3-11-1

Special thanks to Alfredo Quarto